He was sitting in the newsroom and had a massive cardiac arrest. He worked for more than 30 years in the state channel.
Ariel Lima Feijoo, 61, died this Wednesday of a massive cardiac arrest on the channel where he worked for the last three decades. The journalist was sitting in the editorial office of the TV Pública newscast when he suffered a massive cardiac arrest.
At around 4:00 p.m., his colleagues from the news program on the state signal initially believed that he had fallen asleep in the chroniclers’ room, but later they realized that he had broken down. He received attention from the medical department of Public TV and also from SAME doctors, for more than 40 minutes. CPR efforts failed to revive him.
His death caused shock and pain in the channel directed by Claudio Martínez, under the orbit of the president of RTA Rosario Lufrano.
The journalist Lima Feijoo was going to turn 62 on February 24. He had two daughters and a son. It had been working since 1999 as a stable staff of the state channel, which is part of the company Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA). He started out as a writer and later became a team of chroniclers who walk the streets to the rhythm of the news. He also hosted newscasts.
Between 1988 and 1992 he was union secretary of the Union of Press Workers of Buenos Aires (UTPBA). Later, between 1992 and 1995, he served as leader of the Federation of Press Workers (FaTPren).
He previously worked in agencies. In addition to his appearances in front of the camera, he maintained a strong bond with ink: “The backbone is the narration, knowing how to tell”. He transmitted his experience in sporadic seminars and courses throughout the country.
“We share the deep sorrow for the departure of comrade Ariel Lima, a worker at Channel 7 and who was a union leader of our Federation,” FaTPren said in a statement.
“It is with great pain that we fire our colleague Ariel Lima, who worked at Channel 7 for more than 30 years and was a union leader at different times,” said the channel’s workers in the Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBA) in another statement. .
“There is a very great dismay of all the companions of the channel”, said the host Luli Trujillo, of the Desiguales program, on Public TV. Other journalists and entertainers joined the expressions of pain and dedicated their messages to Ariel. For legal reasons, the body de Lima Feijoo was still on the channel after 9:30 p.m.
As a writer, Ariel Lima (as he signed) published the book “A hug, three religions”, a chronicle of Pope Francis’ tour of the Middle East in May 2014. In his networks he also presented himself as a “communication and image advisor”. .
The death of Ariel Lima Feijoo: a fan of Boca and with a step in the cinema
Lima Feijoo was Boca fan and a lover of the songs of Joaquín Sabina and Joan Manuel Serrat.
In his profiles he shared some photos of his coverage (such as an interview with Paloma Herrera when the dancer directed the Stable Ballet of the Teatro Colón), as well as crosses with officials and users in defense of his friends.
Thus it was that he established a position after the death of TN journalist Edgardo Antoñana. “An example of life. Do the best of ours go first?” He asked himself when his colleague died in October 2017.
But Ari -as his friends knew him- also took the time to share one of his life goals achieved: a brief foray into film as extra. He stuck out his chest from that handful of shots in the movie “Don’t cry for me, England” (2018), directed by Néstor Montalbano and starring an extravagant cast headed by Mike Amigorena, Gonzalo Heredia and Diego Capusotto.
“And wish fulfilled“Wrote who described himself as” half an actor, half cheek “. He accompanied him with a photo, next to Mike Amigorena and Matías Martin. He, with a cassock. “You are a priest, very strong …”, they replied.
Companions of endless coverage preferred to remember their entertainment with dinners and roasts. “A great journalist and a best friend,” they recalled. And they lamented: “Today, the street is a place a bit lonelier and sadder without your presence.”
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